Deborah Tien

Techno Hippie | Fan of slower social media and the trickle-out

[Deborah Tien @detien]

Attempted to write about how what I’ve learned about local journalism and election coverage around the country, can cultivate more belonging in neighborhoods https://t.co/3lovOZWC1H

Thanks for the opportunity @AmPress

[Deborah Tien @detien]

Gotta get creative if we’re building without the master’s tools ⚒️

[Common Agency @CommonAgency]

We're doing our first public fundraise! https://t.co/Y2lLdi1A1B Final day to donate is today! Our goal is to build a 'neighbor AI' that helps neighbors address their needs, through collective neighbors' sense-making of neighborhood resources & ideas. #ethicalai #participatorydata

[Deborah Tien @detien]

Power is held by those who can create a sense of belonging - for others and importantly, for themselves.

[Deborah Tien @detien]

May we all look to our growing edges. What also strikes me is the silence of the roots who are doing all the work of connecting. Should we make that invisible work visible, or is it better underground, nourishing without requiring direct acknowledgement?

[Deborah Tien @detien]

Feeling inspired by Howard Thurman today:

'All around us worlds are dying and new worlds are being born;

all around us life is dying and life is being born.

[Deborah Tien @detien]

The birth of a child — life’s most dramatic answer to death — this is the growing edge incarnate.

Look well to the growing edge!'

—Howard Thurman

[Deborah Tien @detien]

https://t.co/QrD3cJjR4U Good intentions. Curious how 'trust' is mentioned briefly only at the end, and how 'friendship,' 'feeling seen,' and 'listen' are nowhere in the article at all...

[Deborah Tien @detien]

Mail/messages as intentional connection AND serendipitous conviviality 🤔

[Deborah Tien @detien]

💡'Returning' not 'donating/giving' money: https://t.co/0Yi5auEEc3

[Deborah Tien @detien]

Empathy is easier when distances are closer, physically & soul-fully.

[Deborah Tien @detien]

‘When two people are angry at each other, their hearts distance a lot. To cover that distance they must shout to be able to hear each other. The angrier they are, the stronger they will have to shout to hear each other through that great distance.’

[Deborah Tien @detien]

‘They do not speak, only whisper and they get even closer to each other in their love. Finally they even need not whisper, they only look at each other and that’s all. That is how close two people are when they love each other.’ - Paulo Coelho

[Deborah Tien @detien]

Been a minute since I've seen such an astonishing website https://t.co/UJlhLuBkXv 😍😍

[pcawdron.bsky.social & http://aus.social/@pcawdron @PeterCawdron]

This is the only real time travel paradox

[Deborah Tien @detien]

Would people still take (entrepreneurial) risks if there weren't as much financial upside? Is there a study?

Curious if (many) others are motivated to spend time/money testing what's possible, even if there weren't possibility of ROI in money.